In today's troubled
world people are wondering,
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"Where Are We Headed?"
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
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what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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Good evening everyone.
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The Mark of the Beast
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is certainly a
significant subject.
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The Book of Revelation
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is the last days
Book of the Bible
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and The Mark of the
Beast features prominently.
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In this last great
battle between good and evil,
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ultimately those
who side with evil
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will be marked with
the Mark of the Beast.
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Those who side with Christ
sealed with the seal of God.
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So what is The
Mark of the Beast?
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A laser beam tattoo, a barcode,
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is it some kind of computer chip
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placed under the
skin of the right hand
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or under the
skin of the forehead
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of those who receive it.
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Who will receive
the Mark of the Beast?
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And how can you avoid
the Mark of the Beast?
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Perhaps when we go
to the Bible tonight
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our eyes will be opened.
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Maybe we'll
learn some new things.
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I can assure you we
will study the truth of God
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and that truth will be clear.
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God wants all of us to
know Jesus in truth and be safe
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and saved in these last
days of earth's history.
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Remember Revelation says
that speaking of the devil
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all that dwell upon
the earth will worship Him
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or except for a small group
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who have their names
written in the Book of Life.
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It's important that
your name is written there.
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Our subject tonight
is The Mark of the Beast.
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Our presenter tonight
again is Ron Halvorsen.
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I want you to bow your heads
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in the word of prayer
as we seek God's presence.
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Gracious Father, I
humbly bound Your presence
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and pray now that no
one will misinterpret
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what we're saying,
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that we're not talking
about the people of faith,
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we're not talking about
the people of conviction
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but we're talking
about a hierarchy,
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we're talking about a
deception in the last days
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that we're to be warned about.
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Now teach us Your
will and Your way we pray
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and we'll honor You
always in Christ's name, amen.
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The Mark of the Beast and 666.
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Tonight will be the
most important meeting
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perhaps you hear
during this whole series
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because we've
already spoken night
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after night
about the counterfeit.
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We talked about
the counterfeit Bible,
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and the counterfeit Sabbath,
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the counterfeit
state of the dead,
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the counterfeit judgment,
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the counterfeit-- if
all that's counterfeit
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then you want to
know what the truth is
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'cause you'll be held
responsible for that truth.
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So you want to know
what God's truth says.
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Now in John 10:10, he says this,
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"The thief cometh
not, but for to steal,
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and to kill, and to destroy:
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but I've come that
they might have life,
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and that they might
have it more abundantly."
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On the one hand he says,
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this thief will rob you,
this thief will kill you.
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On the other hand
it says Jesus Christ
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will give you
eternal life and save you.
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So that is the difference.
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That is what we're
talking about tonight.
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Life or death?
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We're talking
about heaven or hell.
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We're talking about--
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whether we're gonna
follow and stand for God's truth
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or we're gonna just go
along with the counterfeit.
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Some time ago I saw a TV ad
and it captured my attention,
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an older man was
reading his credit card bill
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and there came
upon a scene a young man
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and he was out
surfing in Hawaii,
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new threads, new board,
new girl, he was having a ball.
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He was using the man's identity.
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He was having a
party on this man's credit.
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Wow.
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New thieves stealing, I
mean, stealing identity,
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social security
numbers and licenses
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and bank account numbers
and these thieves silently
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without your
knowledge siphon off your moneys
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through identity theft.
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This type of crime
has become so widespread
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that one talk show host quipped
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that in one year the
United States had lost
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10 percent of its population.
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Now this is not new.
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There has been identity theft
since the beginning of time.
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In fact, the Bible
tells us that Satan,
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the angel of
light became the devil,
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the devil has tried every
way to steal your identity
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to open the door to
control your thinking
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and your emotions.
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He first tried to
steal God's identity.
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There in heaven
he exalted himself
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above the throne of God.
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He wanted equality
to the nature of God
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and there in heaven
he told those angels,
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he got those
angels thinking about it
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and pretending to give something
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that God only could give.
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"I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
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I will be like the most High."
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Genesis 3:5, "For God doth know
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the day in ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened,
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ye shall be as gods
knowing good and evil."
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He is now again stealing.
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Stealing that
which God alone has,
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which God alone
possesses, immortality
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and He is the only one
that can give your mortality
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but He says, He
says I can give you that,
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taking this route and
your eyes will be opened,
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you will be as gods knowing good
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and knowing evil.
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Eve was offered a new identity.
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You will be like God.
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And by the way, she fell for it.
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And then also at the cross
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Satan tried to
steal the Lord's identity,
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he said to Roman centurion,
if you are the Son of God,
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if you are the Son of God
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to take away the
nature of Christ,
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to take away the
purity of Christ,
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to take away the
Kingdom of Christ,
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he says, if you
are the Son of God,
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Satan have so deceived Him
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and taken away
the identity of Christ
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at the centurion,
asked the question,
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asked the
question at that moment.
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Knowledge of
personal identity is crucial
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because their identity
determines the behavior.
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And if you're
identified with Christ
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then you allow Him
to lead it in your life.
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If you're really
controlled by Christ,
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if you're really are
surrendered to Christ
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then what Christ asks
you to do won't be so hard.
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Why is it so difficult?
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He is offering you eternal
life for eternal damnation.
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Doesn't take a rocket
scientist to know what's best.
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And yet so many hesitate,
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so many push away
from this pleading God,
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calling us to true
identity and calling us
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away from the
thief that steals from us
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all that we have from God.
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And that brings us
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in a sense to the
fullness of this subject.
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Now there are two passages
of scripture I want to read.
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One is taken
from the Old Testament
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and one is taken
from the New Testament.
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"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God."
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That has been the rallying
point of Revelation Today.
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"All scripture is
given by inspiration of God."
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Don't tell God
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that you believe
in the whole Bible
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and yet deny a good
portion of His Bible.
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You can say I'm with Him
and hold on to the world.
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You can't have two masters.
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You have one to serve or
the other you will serve.
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You can't serve both.
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And so He says, "All scripture
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is given by inspiration of God,
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is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction
in righteousness."
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So it's the whole scripture
in the weight of evidence.
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If you come here
night after night,
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I'll try to be
faithful to the Bible.
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Now some of the message I
brought to you are difficult.
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I'm sorry for that
but it's still the Bible.
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And the Bible says,
it should correct you.
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The Bible says, it
should what reprove you
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and if you've been
reproved then be reproved.
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If you've been
corrected then be corrected.
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And that's what I'm
talking about tonight.
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And there's a text
from the Old Testament,
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I wish it wasn't there even.
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Listen to it.
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"I have set watchmen
upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
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which shall never hold
their peace day nor night:
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ye that make
mention of the Lord,
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keep not silent."
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In other words, he says,
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when you know it
you can't keep silent,
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you've got to say it
and tell it just like it is.
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So that's why we're here tonight
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because I'm a
minister of the gospel of God
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because I believe the
Bible is the inspired word
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and because I'm
preaching on Revelation
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I have to face the
difficult things here
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in the Book of Revelation.
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You see here it states
that the Bible reproves us
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and corrects us
and instructs us.
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It tells us here that we ought
to be watchmen on the wall.
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We ought to be watchmen.
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Now I do not enjoy preaching
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The Mark of the
Beast, I'm sorry.
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I'd rather talk about
other things you know that.
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I'd rather talk about grace.
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I'd rather talk about the
cross as I did last night.
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I was caught up to the
third heaven last night
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as I preached on
the cross of Christ.
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I would rather
preach on the love of God.
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But The Mark of the Beast
is a part of the Holy Scripture
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and The Mark of the
Beast is God's final warning
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for the people
not to receive it,
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for the people
not to fall to Babylon
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under deceptions of Babylon
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and not be
deceived by the antichrist
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but be faithful to
the Christ of scripture.
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I tell you it is a part
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of the great
Reformation message.
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It was a message of Luther,
it was a message of Zwingli,
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it was a message of Hus
and Jerome and Wycliffe,
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God raised up the
reformers to proclaim the truth
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and call men and women
out of the Babylon of that day
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and call them to
the cross of Christ.
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And that's what we're
going to attempt to do tonight
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here in this meeting.
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So listen
carefully, pray fervently
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because what
decision you make tonight
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maybe your eternal decision.
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In the Book of Revelation
there are prophetic symbols.
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There are
prophetic cartoons it were.
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I call it God's
graffiti and these symbols,
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these cartoons
have hidden meanings
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that affect your
destiny and affect my destiny.
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You see, the dictionary
defines a symbol as this,
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notice, "A symbol is an object,
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a mark, a sign that stands
for another object or idea."
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That's what a symbol is.
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Now for instance let
me show you examples.
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For instance we have the dove.
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Most people when we
think about the dove
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we think of peace.
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All right there is a
dove, here is a bear.
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That's Russia,
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remember during World
War II that was Russia,
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then came the eagle
that was United States.
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Then, now these are
the beasts of Revelation,
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that's the dragon, that's Satan.
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The beast is the kingdoms
and then waters for instance,
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by the way it doesn't
necessarily be beastly
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but it's a beast
a symbolic of what,
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an object or of a nation?
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What does these
symbolic meanings?
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Let's look at the
Bible, notice what it says,
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"And I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to preach unto them
that dwell on the earth,
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to every nation,
kindred, tongue and people."
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Now I want you notice
it's an angelic message.
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If it's an angelic
message it comes from heaven.
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It's a message
that comes from God.
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And He says, you go
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and preach this
message, this gospel
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to the all
uttermost parts of the earth,
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to every nation,
kindred, tongue and people.
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It's a worldwide message
calling a worldwide people
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of every nation, kindred, tongue
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and people, every culture.
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And then He goes on to say here,
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"saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, give glory to Him,
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the hour of His
judgment is come:
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and he says worship Him
that made heaven, and earth,
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and the sea, and
the fountains waters.
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And there followed
another angel, saying,
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Babylon is fallen,"
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listen, "is
fallen, that great city,
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because she made
all nations drink
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the wine of the
wrath of her fornication."
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This is the call
of God describing
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the Babylonian
condition of the last days,
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they are so confused.
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Confusion, confusion, confusion
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and God says, come
out of Babylon My people,
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that you be not
partakers of her sins.
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"The third
angel followed saying,
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if any man worship
the beast and his image,"
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listen to me, any
man, I'm not saying this,
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"if any man worship
the beast and his image,
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and receive his
mark in his forehead,
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or in his hand,
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the same shall drink of the wine
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of the wrath of God."
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I mean, that's
the judgment of God.
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And He says,
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"which is poured
out without a mixture
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into the cup
with his indignation,
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and he shall be
tormented with fire
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and brimstone in the
presence of holy angels,
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in the presence of the Lamb."
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That's a strong message.
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I mean, that's a
judgment message.
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People say, well, why
should I stand for the truth?
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This is why.
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And he says in
Revelation 13:15-17,
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"And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak,
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and cause that as
many would not worship
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the image of the
beast should be," what?
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That's how serious it is.
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"And he causeth all
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and bond,
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to receive a mark
in his right hand,
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in his forehead:
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that no man might
be able to buy or sell,
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save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast,
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or the number of his name."
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Surely if it's that serious
I should know who the beast is.
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Amen.
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And if it's
serious I should understand
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what his mark is.
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And if I
understand who the beast is
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and I understand whose mark is,
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then I need to
come out of Babylon
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and stand for the
truth in the last days.
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Notice, we'll go on,
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clearly the
states of time is coming
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when man won't be
able to buy or sell.
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That an individual
who receives a mark
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will be destroyed.
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Then Revelation 14:12, in
the midst of this He says,
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"There will be a
people called the remnant
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who have the
patience of the saints
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and here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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By the way, faith in
Jesus makes you loving.
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So you can be even doing
this and be lost in hell.
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If you're not
being kind and loving,
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like Jesus would
be kind and loving.
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If you become
judgmental and hard and strict
00:15:30.75\00:15:34.10
and so strict that no
one could come around you
00:15:34.13\00:15:36.76
to hear the beautiful
message of Jesus Christ.
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So don't just point your fingers
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but the patience of the saints
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are they that keep
the commandments of God
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and have the faith of Jesus.
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So my dear
friend if they tell you
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the commandments of
God are not important,
00:15:53.22\00:15:54.86
if they tell you
nine of the commandments
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are important but
one is unimportant,
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if the church goes on to say,
00:15:58.23\00:15:59.34
well, I'm gonna
take one out and put one,
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divide one and put one here
00:16:01.23\00:16:03.10
and take from the
word or add to the word,
00:16:03.13\00:16:06.37
what does the Bible
say stay away from it.
00:16:06.40\00:16:09.77
Stay away from it.
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Throughout history God,
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whenever God was
going to judge the earth,
00:16:13.34\00:16:14.81
He brought a
message of reconciliation,
00:16:14.84\00:16:17.55
so also in this case.
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We find a message of warning
of the Mark of the Beast.
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Let me make it clear.
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We're not talking
about individuals.
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We're not talking about people
00:16:25.69\00:16:27.11
who have been
deceived all their life,
00:16:27.14\00:16:29.32
and are faithful
to what they know
00:16:29.35\00:16:31.29
about Jesus, we're not,
00:16:31.32\00:16:32.65
some of the most
beautiful people in the world.
00:16:32.68\00:16:37.80
The reformers came out of that,
great men and women of God.
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Were talking about a system.
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We're talking about a hierarchy.
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We're talking about man
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when he thinks
he's higher than God
00:16:48.24\00:16:50.51
and when man
thinks he has the power
00:16:50.54\00:16:53.14
to change times and
laws and has the power
00:16:53.17\00:16:55.70
to do things that only God has.
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We're talking about a hierarchy
00:16:59.55\00:17:00.78
of the tampering with the Bible.
00:17:00.81\00:17:03.59
In long period of history
there was subtle changes.
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The church
didn't wake up one day
00:17:07.07\00:17:08.41
and said, let's teach era.
00:17:08.44\00:17:11.34
Church did not
wake up one day and say,
00:17:11.37\00:17:13.11
well, let's teach heresy.
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The church did not
wake up one day and say,
00:17:16.01\00:17:17.81
let's make tradition
above the Word of God.
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The church, it was centuries.
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It was slow changes
until you caught up in it
00:17:23.26\00:17:25.61
before you know it,
you're so captivated by it,
00:17:25.64\00:17:28.69
you can't turn
around and go back.
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You're so full of yourself.
00:17:32.70\00:17:35.51
You think more
of that than you do
00:17:35.54\00:17:37.54
with the kingdom of Christ.
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Well, that's dangerous, friend.
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Now what's the
key? What is the key?
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Understanding the symbols
of the beasts in the Bible.
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What do they stand for
and who do they stand for?
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Let's look at it,
the Bible tells us,
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I'm not going to
define the beast,
00:17:51.51\00:17:52.94
let the Bible define it.
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"And these great beasts,
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which are four, are four," what?
00:17:55.86\00:17:58.51
"Kings, which shall
rise out of the earth.
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Thus he said,
00:18:00.66\00:18:01.78
The fourth beast
shall be the fourth," what?
00:18:01.81\00:18:04.68
"Kingdom upon the earth,
00:18:04.71\00:18:06.57
which shall be
diverse from all kingdoms."
00:18:06.60\00:18:08.96
Every time the Bible
speaks about the four kingdoms,
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it refers to the
kingdoms of Daniel Chapter 2,
00:18:11.77\00:18:14.57
that was Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece
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and the fourth kingdom was Rome.
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Now the Bible says
00:18:19.72\00:18:20.82
it would come out of
the first kingdom, no.
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It would come out
of the second, no.
00:18:23.68\00:18:25.22
It would come out
of the fourth kingdom.
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And what kingdom was that?
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You don't have to
be a mathematician.
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Four is four.
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The fourth kingdom in history
and Bible history is what?
00:18:36.82\00:18:40.49
Rome.
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So we're going to see
what comes out of Rome.
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"And I stood upon
the sand of the sea,
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and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea,
00:18:46.20\00:18:47.58
having seven
heads and ten horns,
00:18:47.61\00:18:49.72
and upon his horns ten crowns,
00:18:49.75\00:18:51.49
and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy."
00:18:51.52\00:18:53.73
Now he's defining this beast.
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The Bible first of all
tells us about this beast,
00:18:55.68\00:18:59.20
"And the beast which I
saw was like unto a leopard,"
00:18:59.23\00:19:00.94
now he's talking
of symbolic terms,
00:19:00.97\00:19:02.50
he can't describe it,
00:19:02.53\00:19:04.04
"The feet of a bear,
the mouth of the lion,
00:19:04.07\00:19:07.36
and the dragon
gave him three things
00:19:07.39\00:19:09.13
power, seat and authority."
00:19:09.16\00:19:11.29
And so now here we
find in the Word of God
00:19:11.32\00:19:13.53
something about this beast.
00:19:13.56\00:19:15.38
"And I saw one of the
heads is all wounded unto death,
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and his deadly wound was healed:
00:19:18.23\00:19:20.04
and all the world
wondered after the beast.
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And they worshipped the dragon
00:19:22.33\00:19:23.44
which gave him
power unto the beast."
00:19:23.47\00:19:26.28
And then he says,
00:19:26.31\00:19:27.43
"And they
worshipped the beast, saying,
00:19:27.46\00:19:28.85
Who is like unto
that nation or that power?
00:19:28.88\00:19:31.51
Who is able to
make war with him?
00:19:31.54\00:19:33.45
And there was given unto him
a mouth speaking great things
00:19:33.48\00:19:36.65
and blasphemy..."
and he goes on to say,
00:19:36.68\00:19:39.42
"And power is given unto
him to continue forty..."
00:19:39.45\00:19:42.12
Tells how long?
Forty and two months.
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And he opened his mouth
in blasphemy against God,
00:19:44.87\00:19:47.78
to blaspheme his name,
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his tabernacle on
them that dwell in heaven."
00:19:49.08\00:19:52.08
Some things happened.
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Notice the characteristic,
please follow me.
00:19:54.55\00:19:57.23
It comes up out of Roman Empire,
00:19:57.26\00:19:59.08
the Fourth Kingdom.
00:19:59.11\00:20:00.35
Secondly it comes up out
of the water, the people.
00:20:00.38\00:20:03.92
Remember waters
represent people,
00:20:03.95\00:20:05.75
I gave you those
symbols you have in there.
00:20:05.78\00:20:08.35
It doesn't come up
like the United States
00:20:08.38\00:20:10.04
out of the wilderness, it
comes up out of the peoples,
00:20:10.07\00:20:12.60
it comes up out of
the Fourth Kingdom.
00:20:12.63\00:20:14.37
All right so he's
narrowing it down.
00:20:14.40\00:20:16.13
He says, receives three things
00:20:16.16\00:20:18.50
from this Roman Fourth Kingdom,
00:20:18.53\00:20:21.43
power, seat and authority.
00:20:21.46\00:20:25.09
Let me give you a
little history lesson,
00:20:25.12\00:20:26.33
all right tonight.
00:20:26.36\00:20:27.39
I want to give
you little history,
00:20:27.42\00:20:28.47
since my graduate
work is in history
00:20:28.50\00:20:30.33
I want to give you a
little history lesson.
00:20:30.36\00:20:32.16
Pagan Rome gave
and bequeath her power
00:20:32.19\00:20:35.40
in the west to papal Rome.
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.89
I was recently in Rome
and saw the great painting,
00:20:38.92\00:20:41.03
it's about 75 feet in length,
00:20:41.06\00:20:43.83
it is the
painting of Constantine,
00:20:43.86\00:20:46.11
giving Sylvester I
Pope a figure of a warrior.
00:20:46.14\00:20:50.74
Notice this figure of
the warrior he's giving it.
00:20:50.77\00:20:53.51
And he's giving
power to the pope in Rome.
00:20:53.54\00:20:56.85
You see, history
buffs you'll recall
00:20:56.88\00:20:58.77
that Constantine
was moving his capital
00:20:58.80\00:21:01.47
from Rome to Constantinople.
00:21:01.50\00:21:04.96
And so in history he
says, I'm going to give you this
00:21:04.99\00:21:08.19
in the
denotation of Constantine.
00:21:08.22\00:21:10.31
He says I'm going
to give you power,
00:21:10.34\00:21:12.18
I'm gonna give you seat
00:21:12.21\00:21:13.55
and I'm going to give
you authority in Rome.
00:21:13.58\00:21:16.50
It's called the
denotation of Constantine.
00:21:16.53\00:21:20.00
In fact, Labanca, her
church historian said this,
00:21:20.03\00:21:23.42
"To the
successions of the Caesars
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.86
came the succession
to the Pontiffs in Rome.
00:21:25.89\00:21:28.42
When Constantine left Rome
00:21:28.45\00:21:30.03
he gave his
seat to the Pontiff."
00:21:30.06\00:21:31.87
Now what does it
say, Rome would give what?
00:21:31.90\00:21:34.02
The seat to this
beast like power.
00:21:34.05\00:21:37.42
He would give him authority.
00:21:37.45\00:21:38.96
So Constantine says,
I'm going to Constantinople,
00:21:38.99\00:21:42.29
you can rule Rome.
00:21:42.32\00:21:47.46
And gave him authority.
00:21:47.49\00:21:49.70
"The pope's filled the place
of the vacant emperors in Rome,
00:21:49.73\00:21:52.68
inheriting their
power, their privilege,
00:21:52.71\00:21:54.94
their titles from" what?
00:21:54.97\00:21:58.38
"Paganism."
00:21:58.41\00:21:59.60
Now the church is
no longer the church.
00:21:59.63\00:22:01.30
The Church is a
church and state.
00:22:01.33\00:22:04.07
Come on, it's church and state.
00:22:04.10\00:22:06.49
You see, when the
Pope comes travels,
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.29
he comes
representing the Vatican,
00:22:08.32\00:22:11.37
which is a separate country.
00:22:11.40\00:22:12.94
He comes politically as
well as a spiritual leader
00:22:12.97\00:22:16.53
of the Roman people,
Roman Catholic people.
00:22:16.56\00:22:19.80
So we see that
histories bore out the fact
00:22:19.83\00:22:23.26
that the popes filled the place
of the vacant emperors at Rome,
00:22:23.29\00:22:26.34
inheriting their power,
inheriting their prestige
00:22:26.37\00:22:29.83
and inheriting the
titles from paganism.
00:22:29.86\00:22:34.95
Wow.
00:22:34.98\00:22:36.31
Let me quote, meekly stepping,
00:22:36.34\00:22:38.54
it's the Catholic
Quarterly by the way,
00:22:38.57\00:22:40.09
it's a magazine written
by Roman Catholic Church,
00:22:40.12\00:22:42.71
"Meekly stepping to
the throne of Caesar,
00:22:42.74\00:22:45.35
the vicar of Christ."
00:22:45.38\00:22:47.11
You see, every pope is
called Vicar of Christ.
00:22:47.14\00:22:50.41
You see, it couldn't be one man
00:22:50.44\00:22:52.16
that existed from
way back there till now,
00:22:52.19\00:22:55.87
it had to be one power
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.10
and one power is Vicar of Christ
00:22:58.13\00:23:00.95
So whoever takes
the throne of the papacy
00:23:00.98\00:23:04.15
is Vicar of Christ,
Vicar of the Son of God.
00:23:04.18\00:23:07.88
And it says,
"The vicar of Christ
00:23:07.91\00:23:09.18
took the scepter
to which the emperors
00:23:09.21\00:23:11.23
and Kings of Europe were to bow
00:23:11.26\00:23:12.82
in reverence
through so many years."
00:23:12.85\00:23:15.16
Soon it became not
only the political power,
00:23:15.19\00:23:17.88
the religious power
and men began to bow to it.
00:23:17.91\00:23:22.82
With power there comes problems,
00:23:22.85\00:23:26.74
come on now, right.
00:23:26.77\00:23:31.36
You met people
like that, haven't you?
00:23:31.39\00:23:33.18
A boss with power, what happens?
00:23:33.21\00:23:38.44
Can there be any
doubt that pagan Rome
00:23:38.47\00:23:40.03
gave people of
Rome these three things
00:23:40.06\00:23:41.64
power, seat and authority.
00:23:41.67\00:23:43.24
And I saw one of the heads
as it were wounded to death
00:23:43.27\00:23:45.92
and his deadly wound was healed:
00:23:45.95\00:23:47.70
and all the world
wondered after," what?
00:23:47.73\00:23:50.64
"All the world
wondered after the beast."
00:23:50.67\00:23:54.34
Characteristics of the beast.
00:23:54.37\00:23:56.36
He receives a deadly wound.
00:23:56.39\00:23:58.03
Now when did this papal
power receive a deadly wound?
00:23:58.06\00:24:01.46
"And there was given unto him
00:24:01.49\00:24:02.69
mouth speaking
great things, blasphemies
00:24:02.72\00:24:04.52
and power was
given unto him," what?
00:24:04.55\00:24:06.89
"To continue
forty and two months."
00:24:06.92\00:24:09.95
Now if I'm going to understand
00:24:09.98\00:24:11.54
what this power is
or who this power is,
00:24:11.57\00:24:13.57
I've got to understand
when it came into power?
00:24:13.60\00:24:16.30
How long it would exist
until it was wounded to death?
00:24:16.33\00:24:20.03
Symbolic of the
prophetic day time principle.
00:24:20.06\00:24:23.03
One day is equal to what?
00:24:23.06\00:24:26.01
That's prophetically
right, that's clear,
00:24:26.04\00:24:27.86
we've read it again and again,
00:24:27.89\00:24:28.93
Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14:34,
00:24:28.96\00:24:31.54
and every time we
took of time prophecy,
00:24:31.57\00:24:33.52
a line time prophecy,
00:24:33.55\00:24:35.00
it came out if we use
the day-year principle.
00:24:35.03\00:24:38.36
It doesn't come
out, well, you say,
00:24:38.39\00:24:39.87
someone asked you the question,
00:24:39.90\00:24:41.25
how do you know when to
use the day-year principle
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.36
and 24 hour day?
00:24:43.39\00:24:45.13
Well, if you notice when God
talked about the 24-hour day,
00:24:45.16\00:24:47.37
he said evening and morning,
00:24:47.40\00:24:48.50
evening and
morning, evening and morning.
00:24:48.53\00:24:50.19
Here He says, a
day is equal to year.
00:24:50.22\00:24:53.47
And so when you study prophecy,
you look at the prophecy
00:24:53.50\00:24:56.17
and if it comes out
with the day-year principle,
00:24:56.20\00:24:58.08
you know that day-year
principle is applicable.
00:24:58.11\00:25:01.92
So now let's look at
this day-year principle
00:25:01.95\00:25:04.51
of Bible prophecy.
00:25:04.54\00:25:06.19
Let's see it, all right,
30 times 42 is 1260 years.
00:25:06.22\00:25:10.56
1260 years.
00:25:10.59\00:25:12.60
Now those who know
history and the history of Rome,
00:25:12.63\00:25:15.61
people of Rome took its
power in the year 538 A.D.
00:25:15.64\00:25:20.54
It continued 1260 years exactly.
00:25:20.57\00:25:24.23
And then something happened
it was wounded to death.
00:25:24.26\00:25:27.23
And those history
buffs know what happened,
00:25:27.26\00:25:29.70
you remember that Berthier,
Napoleon's general came
00:25:29.73\00:25:33.42
and he took the pope
captive that was in 1798,
00:25:33.45\00:25:38.22
1260 years from 538.
00:25:38.25\00:25:41.92
In 1798, Berthier took
the pope into captivity
00:25:41.95\00:25:46.36
and the pope was
wounded to death.
00:25:46.39\00:25:47.87
They thought this is
the end of the papacy.
00:25:47.90\00:25:51.81
They thought this is the
end of that beast like power.
00:25:51.84\00:25:55.14
But it wasn't
because the Bible says
00:25:55.17\00:25:57.72
that wound would be what?
00:25:57.75\00:25:59.59
That wound would be healed.
00:25:59.62\00:26:01.73
And those who
studied history know
00:26:01.76\00:26:03.70
that Benito
Mussolini signed a concordat
00:26:03.73\00:26:07.29
with the pope
giving him full authority
00:26:07.32\00:26:09.42
and Kingdom known as Vatican.
00:26:09.45\00:26:11.61
That was in 1929,
00:26:11.64\00:26:12.87
by the way, check up on me.
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.66
Now here's the
fifth characteristic,
00:26:15.69\00:26:17.36
he's a persecuting power.
00:26:17.39\00:26:19.31
Now Christianity in
fact, knows from history,
00:26:19.34\00:26:23.40
"And it was given unto him
to make war with the saints..."
00:26:23.43\00:26:26.28
That's
persecution to overcome them.
00:26:26.31\00:26:28.85
"And powers given to
him over all the kindreds,
00:26:28.88\00:26:30.69
and tongues and
of all the nations.
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.50
I mean, He describes His power,
00:26:33.53\00:26:35.20
as being persecuting power.
00:26:35.23\00:26:37.30
And notice what happened
and any of you noticed history
00:26:37.33\00:26:40.64
during those Dark Ages,
during that period of time
00:26:40.67\00:26:43.40
of the supremacy of the papacy
00:26:43.43\00:26:45.22
50 million
Protestants lost their lives
00:26:45.25\00:26:48.34
because they would
not bow down to Rome.
00:26:48.37\00:26:50.26
They would not
bow down to tradition.
00:26:50.29\00:26:52.48
They would not turn
away from the Bible.
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.02
They wanted to stand on
the principles of the Bible.
00:26:55.05\00:26:57.24
And so when the
church came along and said,
00:26:57.27\00:26:59.02
well, we can absolve your sins,
00:26:59.05\00:27:00.67
they knew that was
nowhere in the Bible,
00:27:00.70\00:27:02.30
so they said we would rather die
00:27:02.33\00:27:04.40
than you absolve us of our sins.
00:27:04.43\00:27:07.32
And that's why Luther said,
00:27:07.35\00:27:08.78
here I stand, I can do no other.
00:27:08.81\00:27:11.30
God helped me,
00:27:11.33\00:27:12.86
because he
understood justification
00:27:12.89\00:27:14.72
by faith alone in Christ.
00:27:14.75\00:27:16.41
That we're not
brought into the heaven
00:27:16.44\00:27:17.77
by a superpower
or by a hierarchy
00:27:17.80\00:27:20.25
or by elite or by a
pastor or priest or a pope,
00:27:20.28\00:27:23.72
that we're brought
into the Kingdom of Heaven
00:27:23.75\00:27:25.36
by the living Christ
00:27:25.39\00:27:26.49
who is as the
heavenly high priest in heaven.
00:27:26.52\00:27:29.19
That we have an advocate
00:27:29.22\00:27:30.27
and that
advocate is Jesus Christ.
00:27:30.30\00:27:32.37
And so they stood up to it.
00:27:32.40\00:27:34.53
They surrendered to the
truth and they stood up for it.
00:27:34.56\00:27:39.38
And they were
rewarded because their name
00:27:39.41\00:27:42.36
will be forever written
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:27:42.39\00:27:46.82
I'd rather be written
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:27:46.85\00:27:50.64
Listen to me,
the characteristics.
00:27:50.67\00:27:53.70
He receives a deadly
wound and that happened in 1798.
00:27:53.73\00:27:58.54
The wound is healed in 1929.
00:27:58.57\00:28:00.95
The Vatican is
now back to its power
00:28:00.98\00:28:03.28
and now it becomes
a persecuting power.
00:28:03.31\00:28:06.18
And anyone will
tell you, any historian,
00:28:06.21\00:28:08.89
anyone whether it's in a
Catholic Church historian
00:28:08.92\00:28:11.55
or a Protestant historian
that during that period of time
00:28:11.58\00:28:14.93
and many years later
00:28:14.96\00:28:16.93
they persecuted
people unto death.
00:28:16.96\00:28:19.07
In other words, recant.
00:28:19.10\00:28:23.63
Give up your faith
00:28:23.66\00:28:26.49
and they
persecuted even unto death.
00:28:26.52\00:28:29.27
Read the Book of Martyrs,
and in the name of Christ,
00:28:29.30\00:28:36.08
in the name of Vicar of
Christ 50 million people
00:28:36.11\00:28:41.57
and that's a
conservative estimate.
00:28:41.60\00:28:44.19
50 million people died.
00:28:44.22\00:28:49.44
The Bible goes on even clearer.
00:28:49.47\00:28:51.81
It's not only a
persecuting power,
00:28:51.84\00:28:54.98
but the Bible tells us
it will speak blasphemy.
00:28:55.01\00:28:59.08
Now what is blasphemy?
00:28:59.11\00:29:00.82
Well, let's go to the Bible,
let's find out what Jesus said
00:29:00.85\00:29:03.43
is blasphemy or what
they said is blasphemy.
00:29:03.46\00:29:06.25
"And the Jews
answered him, saying,
00:29:06.28\00:29:07.75
For a good work
we stone thee not,
00:29:07.78\00:29:09.60
but for blasphemy,
because thou, being a man,
00:29:09.63\00:29:13.21
makest thyself," what?
00:29:13.24\00:29:15.24
"God."
00:29:15.27\00:29:16.38
If a man takes
the prerogative of God
00:29:16.41\00:29:18.60
he's speaking blasphemy.
00:29:18.63\00:29:20.49
If I were to stand here tonight
and tell you that I am God.
00:29:20.52\00:29:26.40
You'd run out of this building.
00:29:26.43\00:29:29.18
I wouldn't blame
you, I'd run out with you.
00:29:29.21\00:29:34.88
I'd run out with you.
00:29:34.91\00:29:37.77
What is blasphemy?
00:29:37.80\00:29:38.98
Well, "But there was certain
00:29:39.01\00:29:40.55
if the scribes sitting there,
and reasoning in their hearts,
00:29:40.58\00:29:42.84
why doth this man
thus speak blasphemies?
00:29:42.87\00:29:45.85
Who can forgive
sins but God only?"
00:29:45.88\00:29:49.16
So he's saying
that blasphemy is one
00:29:49.19\00:29:51.70
taking the prerogative of
God, sitting in the seat of God,
00:29:51.73\00:29:55.34
taking the same prerogative
00:29:55.37\00:29:56.97
and the other is to have
the power to forgive sin,
00:29:57.00\00:30:01.14
that is God's will and
that is God's power only.
00:30:01.17\00:30:05.16
Satan said to Eve
you will be like God.
00:30:05.19\00:30:08.48
Satan said to the
church in the Dark Ages,
00:30:08.51\00:30:11.01
Satan said to the
leaders of the church,
00:30:11.04\00:30:13.26
you will be like God
00:30:13.29\00:30:16.94
and thus Vicar of
the Christ, Son of God.
00:30:16.97\00:30:21.74
Listen, let me take you to Rome.
00:30:21.77\00:30:25.49
"We hold upon this earth
the place of almighty God,"
00:30:25.52\00:30:29.11
Pope Leo XIII.
00:30:29.14\00:30:31.59
Let me take you to Rome,
00:30:31.62\00:30:33.65
"Therefore the
decisions of the Pope
00:30:33.68\00:30:36.45
and the decisions of God
00:30:36.48\00:30:41.29
constitute one decision."
00:30:41.32\00:30:44.80
This is Rome.
00:30:44.83\00:30:47.43
Listen, I'm not making this up.
00:30:47.46\00:30:51.01
"The Pope can modify divine law,
00:30:51.04\00:30:53.03
since his power is
not of man, but of God,
00:30:53.06\00:30:55.41
and he acts as
vicegerent of God upon earth."
00:30:55.44\00:31:00.91
He can change and modify
law or how did he do that?
00:31:00.94\00:31:04.09
You know history, he changed,
00:31:04.12\00:31:05.83
remember one commandment,
cut in half took the other.
00:31:05.86\00:31:09.20
Made the fourth
commandment, the third command--
00:31:09.23\00:31:11.16
he had the power.
00:31:11.19\00:31:14.87
This man had the
power to do that.
00:31:14.90\00:31:15.93
Come on I'm asking you.
00:31:15.96\00:31:16.99
Do I have the power to--
00:31:17.02\00:31:18.11
why if I don't
have the power to do it
00:31:18.14\00:31:19.38
he doesn't have the power
00:31:19.41\00:31:20.44
because I'm saved the same way
00:31:20.47\00:31:21.55
the pope is saved
by the grace of Christ.
00:31:21.58\00:31:23.43
I'm no more holy than the
pope, he's no more holy than me.
00:31:23.46\00:31:26.31
Listen to him.
00:31:34.71\00:31:36.26
The history,
00:31:36.29\00:31:37.78
"Hence the Pope is
crowned with the triple crown,
00:31:37.81\00:31:40.19
as king of heaven and of
earth and the lower regions."
00:31:40.22\00:31:44.27
He controls heaven,
earth and the lower regions.
00:31:44.30\00:31:49.46
It's blasphemy. It's blasphemy.
00:31:49.49\00:31:54.46
Listen, "Thou art the shepherd,
00:31:54.49\00:31:57.22
thou art the physician,
thou art the director,
00:31:57.25\00:32:00.28
thou art the husbandman,
00:32:00.31\00:32:01.72
finally thou art
another God on earth,"
00:32:01.75\00:32:05.98
Christopher Marcellus,
Fifth Lateran Council, 1512.
00:32:06.01\00:32:10.73
We're not talking about people
00:32:10.76\00:32:11.86
who've been brought up that way.
00:32:11.89\00:32:15.00
We're talking about hierarchy.
00:32:15.03\00:32:16.09
We're talking about someone
who's taken the prerogative
00:32:16.12\00:32:18.37
but we don't want him
to steal your identity.
00:32:18.40\00:32:23.23
I'm here to say tonight
00:32:23.26\00:32:24.41
we don't want him
to steal your identity.
00:32:24.44\00:32:27.40
Stand for the
truth and you'll stand
00:32:27.43\00:32:29.99
and identify with Jesus Christ.
00:32:30.02\00:32:33.80
Amen, that's what you
want to be identified with.
00:32:33.83\00:32:39.63
Listen, I go again in the Rome.
00:32:39.66\00:32:43.10
This is Convert's Catechism.
00:32:43.13\00:32:45.32
Question: Who is
the Holy Father or Pope?
00:32:45.35\00:32:47.51
Answer: The Holy Father or Pope
00:32:47.54\00:32:50.02
is the visible
head of the church,
00:32:50.05\00:32:51.79
the successor of St. Peter
00:32:51.82\00:32:53.66
and the Vicar of
Christ on earth."
00:32:53.69\00:32:55.36
There's one thing they forget,
00:32:55.39\00:32:56.70
St. Peter was not the
first leader of the church.
00:32:56.73\00:32:59.29
It was who?
00:32:59.32\00:33:00.84
James, and he was
the leader in Jerusalem.
00:33:00.87\00:33:07.29
And by the way,
he did not build,
00:33:07.32\00:33:08.77
he did not build
the church on Peter,
00:33:08.80\00:33:11.95
the pebble, he built the
church on Jesus, the rock.
00:33:11.98\00:33:16.02
Amen.
00:33:16.05\00:33:19.62
The gates of hell
can have Peter fall.
00:33:19.65\00:33:23.84
I know not the man but the rock.
00:33:23.87\00:33:30.44
Let this cup pass for me Lord,
00:33:30.47\00:33:32.33
but if it doesn't
send me to my cross,
00:33:32.36\00:33:36.97
let me die for my people.
00:33:37.00\00:33:38.78
Amen.
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.20
"The doctrine that Christ
took the nature of God in man,
00:33:43.30\00:33:45.67
so the pope, is not simply a man
00:33:45.70\00:33:47.43
but rather God on earth."
00:33:47.46\00:33:49.25
I'm not saying that
Protestants of Hus and Jerome
00:33:49.28\00:33:52.28
and Luther didn't say
that, the church said.
00:33:52.31\00:33:56.03
Wonder why we
called it the Dark Ages.
00:33:56.06\00:33:58.90
I'm sorry to say we still
live many in the Dark Ages.
00:33:58.93\00:34:06.23
My friend, it doesn't
matter if the pope is good man,
00:34:06.26\00:34:08.79
I have no quarrel with that.
00:34:08.82\00:34:12.57
I'm in no way judging
as leadership are built.
00:34:12.60\00:34:16.34
I am standing here tonight
to say he has no authority,
00:34:16.37\00:34:19.84
he has no claim, he has no right
00:34:19.87\00:34:23.21
to consider him zicar,
Vicar of Christ God on earth.
00:34:23.24\00:34:27.32
Amen.
00:34:27.35\00:34:29.39
All ascribed to the pope
00:34:29.42\00:34:31.35
is ascribed to the beast
of Revelation Chapter 13.
00:34:31.38\00:34:34.67
And through history
the Protestant Reformation,
00:34:34.70\00:34:37.51
through history
of the early church,
00:34:37.54\00:34:39.11
through history the
church of the 1800s,
00:34:39.14\00:34:42.23
through history the
church in the beginning believed
00:34:42.26\00:34:45.10
what this has been
teaching in Revelation 13.
00:34:45.13\00:34:47.30
Now, they've gone away from it
because they've united with it.
00:34:47.33\00:34:52.53
They've united with it.
00:34:52.56\00:34:56.32
"All names which
scripture applied to Christ,
00:34:56.35\00:34:58.54
by virtue which is established
that he is over the church,
00:34:58.57\00:35:01.58
all the same names
are applied to the Pope."
00:35:01.61\00:35:04.98
He is not the Prince of Peace.
00:35:05.01\00:35:08.44
Jesus Christ is. Amen.
00:35:08.47\00:35:12.09
Jesus Christ is.
00:35:12.12\00:35:13.96
He is not my
savior, Jesus Christ is.
00:35:13.99\00:35:16.21
Amen. Church cannot save me.
00:35:16.24\00:35:20.58
No more than the
pope can save me.
00:35:20.61\00:35:23.42
What his confession?
00:35:23.45\00:35:24.49
Answer: Confession is
the telling of our sins
00:35:24.52\00:35:27.40
to the priest of God
to obtain forgiveness.
00:35:27.43\00:35:32.82
You can crawl in your closet,
you can crawl under your bed
00:35:32.85\00:35:37.75
and confess your sins to God.
00:35:37.78\00:35:39.81
You don't need a preacher,
you don't need a priest
00:35:39.84\00:35:41.64
and you don't need a
General Conference President.
00:35:41.67\00:35:44.86
You are free to ask
Him for forgiveness.
00:35:48.90\00:35:53.39
And who has the right to forgive
00:35:53.42\00:35:55.22
than the Holy One of Israel,
00:35:55.25\00:35:58.38
than He, who is
God Yahweh forever,
00:35:58.41\00:36:03.94
who has that power.
00:36:03.97\00:36:05.92
Listen, "The pope
is the vicar of Christ,
00:36:05.95\00:36:08.04
the claims the Pope are the same
00:36:08.07\00:36:09.28
as the claims of
Christ, Christ can forgive sin,
00:36:09.31\00:36:12.35
so can the," what?
00:36:12.38\00:36:14.69
"Pope forgive sin." Here's more.
00:36:14.72\00:36:17.27
This is not me, Michael Mueller,
00:36:17.30\00:36:19.31
"There is a man on
earth who can forgive sin
00:36:19.34\00:36:21.24
and that's the Catholic priest."
00:36:21.27\00:36:24.29
Blasphemy absolve you.
00:36:24.32\00:36:27.68
Who's gonna absolve him?
00:36:27.71\00:36:32.56
But the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:36:32.59\00:36:35.90
Isn't it wonderful
you can go to the advocate
00:36:35.93\00:36:37.47
and having Jesus himself
and confess your sin, isn't it?
00:36:37.50\00:36:40.51
Come on now. Isn't it?
00:36:40.54\00:36:44.18
Listen, I'm quoting,
00:36:44.21\00:36:46.60
"The priest stands as a," what?
00:36:46.63\00:36:48.29
Mediator.
00:36:48.32\00:36:49.64
My brother, sister
whatever you feel about it,
00:36:49.67\00:36:52.00
that's blasphemy.
00:36:52.03\00:36:54.43
That's blasphemy.
00:36:54.46\00:36:56.98
He's not my mediator.
00:36:57.01\00:36:59.99
How good a man he
is, he's not my mediator.
00:37:00.02\00:37:03.95
No matter how
holy-- he's not mediator.
00:37:03.98\00:37:07.76
There is one
mediator between God and man,
00:37:07.79\00:37:09.29
that's the Lord
Jesus Christ, right, amen.
00:37:09.32\00:37:11.57
You can go
straight to Jesus Christ
00:37:11.60\00:37:13.91
and He will lead
you and guide you
00:37:13.94\00:37:16.48
in this manner, in this manner.
00:37:16.51\00:37:19.92
I'm trying to be gentle,
the church isn't gentle here.
00:37:19.95\00:37:23.76
Dignity and
Duties of the priest,
00:37:23.79\00:37:25.01
that's what the priest
learned, the 12 volume, page 34.
00:37:25.04\00:37:27.67
"The priest not only declares
that the sinner is forgiven,
00:37:27.70\00:37:30.51
but he really forgives him.
00:37:30.54\00:37:32.07
So great is the power of priest
00:37:32.10\00:37:34.18
that the
judgments of heaven itself
00:37:34.21\00:37:36.10
are subject to his decisions."
00:37:36.13\00:37:38.97
You align yourself.
00:37:42.78\00:37:47.28
Well, my mommy,
00:37:47.31\00:37:48.38
what's your mommy
have to do with it?
00:37:48.41\00:37:50.09
She couldn't help
it, her mommy's mommy.
00:37:50.12\00:37:52.55
And hers mommy,
mommy, mommy's back to mommy.
00:37:52.58\00:37:57.65
But you're not
gonna be judged by mommy.
00:37:57.68\00:38:00.97
You're going to be
judged by what you do for God
00:38:01.00\00:38:03.07
or don't do for God.
00:38:03.10\00:38:04.68
You're going to be
judged for coming out of Babylon
00:38:04.71\00:38:06.90
or staying in Babylon.
00:38:06.93\00:38:08.70
Now he speaks blasphemy,
the power to persecute,
00:38:12.67\00:38:15.89
the deadly, I
mean, this is the seventh
00:38:15.92\00:38:17.77
identification
characteristic of this.
00:38:17.80\00:38:20.37
Could there be any
doubt in your heart?
00:38:20.40\00:38:21.92
Well, he says in case there is,
00:38:21.95\00:38:23.52
he says it's
the number of a man.
00:38:23.55\00:38:25.99
"Here is wisdom.
00:38:26.02\00:38:27.10
Let him that hath understanding
00:38:27.13\00:38:28.28
let him count the
number of the beast:
00:38:28.31\00:38:29.84
for it is the number of a man,
00:38:29.87\00:38:31.25
and his number is six
hundred threescore and six."
00:38:31.28\00:38:35.28
And by the way, this is
the Goodspeed translation,
00:38:35.31\00:38:37.79
"It is a number of a certain man
00:38:37.82\00:38:38.98
and his number is?"
00:38:39.01\00:38:40.56
Here's the Douay version,
00:38:40.59\00:38:41.62
the Catholic version
of the Bible, not mine,
00:38:41.65\00:38:43.29
that's the Catholic
version of the Bible Douay.
00:38:43.32\00:38:45.46
"The numerical value
of the letters of his name
00:38:45.49\00:38:47.34
make up his number."
00:38:47.37\00:38:49.20
Remember when you're in
third grade or fourth grade
00:38:49.23\00:38:51.42
and the teacher
threw a curve at me,
00:38:51.45\00:38:54.54
she put a V on the board.
00:38:54.57\00:38:57.69
And she said, does
anybody know what that is?
00:38:57.72\00:39:00.70
I knew very
little. But this I knew.
00:39:00.73\00:39:05.44
So I raised my hand and waving,
00:39:05.47\00:39:07.00
she says,
Ronnie, she is surprised.
00:39:07.03\00:39:10.95
She even blinked her eyes.
00:39:10.98\00:39:13.16
She said, Ronnie, what is it?
00:39:13.19\00:39:16.64
I said that's a V.
00:39:16.67\00:39:18.94
She said, no, that's a five.
00:39:18.97\00:39:21.48
Took me four
grades to figure that out,
00:39:26.02\00:39:28.43
and now she
throws a curve at me.
00:39:28.46\00:39:33.28
When she puts a C on the board,
00:39:33.31\00:39:35.90
I could make a
mistake of a V but a C?
00:39:35.93\00:39:41.75
I had seen enough C's.
00:39:41.78\00:39:44.69
No, I've seen enough D's and F's
00:39:44.72\00:39:46.26
but I, every now
and then I saw a C.
00:39:46.29\00:39:50.84
And she said, what is this?
00:39:50.87\00:39:51.95
And I said, ah,
teacher I know that.
00:39:51.98\00:39:54.26
She said, Ronnie, what is it?
00:39:54.29\00:39:55.69
That's a C. She says, no.
00:39:55.72\00:39:59.18
That's a hundred.
00:39:59.21\00:40:02.48
That's a hundred.
00:40:07.75\00:40:10.95
The numerical value
of the letter of His name
00:40:10.98\00:40:17.13
makes up His number.
00:40:17.16\00:40:21.47
Well, let's look at it.
00:40:21.50\00:40:23.26
Now notice, Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:40:23.29\00:40:25.52
that's Latin with
a Brooklyn accent,
00:40:25.55\00:40:27.70
Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:40:27.73\00:40:31.81
and I want you to
know something about him.
00:40:31.84\00:40:34.26
Vicarius, V is 5,
I is 1, C is a 100,
00:40:34.29\00:40:40.06
there's no
numerical value for an A,
00:40:40.09\00:40:41.58
there's no
numerical value for an R
00:40:41.61\00:40:43.44
but I 1, there's U
which is used as the V really,
00:40:43.47\00:40:48.05
that's five, S 0, all right.
00:40:48.08\00:40:51.81
Well, let's look again now,
00:40:51.84\00:40:53.12
Filii, F 0, I 1, L
is a 50 and I is 1,
00:40:53.15\00:40:59.79
and then Dei, D 500,
numerical value of D and I is 1
00:40:59.82\00:41:07.39
and notice,
Vicarius Filii Dei 666.
00:41:07.42\00:41:14.21
Come on now, that's his number,
00:41:14.24\00:41:16.94
that's his name.
00:41:16.97\00:41:19.19
Added to all the characteristics
00:41:19.22\00:41:20.61
we spoke about there's
only one kingdom that I know,
00:41:20.64\00:41:22.68
there's only one power
00:41:22.71\00:41:23.76
that came out of
fourth kingdom Rome.
00:41:23.79\00:41:25.90
There's only one power
that I know came out of Rome.
00:41:25.93\00:41:28.26
Only one power that received
its authority from Rome,
00:41:28.29\00:41:32.19
it's seat from up Rome
and there's only one power
00:41:32.22\00:41:36.00
and it goes on
about persecuting power.
00:41:36.03\00:41:38.69
There's only one power,
00:41:38.72\00:41:39.99
all this was
revealed in the Word of God.
00:41:40.02\00:41:42.53
All this is before
us in the Word of God.
00:41:42.56\00:41:44.73
"Of course the Catholic Church
claims the change was her act.
00:41:44.76\00:41:47.80
And the act is her mark."
00:41:47.83\00:41:49.17
The change of what?
00:41:49.20\00:41:50.28
I'll show you in a minute.
00:41:50.31\00:41:51.44
"It's ecclesiastical power
00:41:51.47\00:41:53.07
and authority in
religious matters."
00:41:53.10\00:41:54.99
Now what was its change?
00:41:55.02\00:41:57.00
"The church
changed the Sabbath."
00:41:57.03\00:41:59.38
Now, I want you to
listen to me, Sunday keepers.
00:41:59.41\00:42:02.29
We've talked about the Sabbath,
00:42:02.32\00:42:03.82
we've taken
biblical proof for it.
00:42:03.85\00:42:05.83
I'm not gonna do that tonight
but I want you to listen.
00:42:05.86\00:42:08.83
You did not get
it from scripture.
00:42:08.86\00:42:11.85
You sure your preacher
can come here show me one text
00:42:11.88\00:42:16.37
and I'll show him 400 texts.
00:42:16.40\00:42:19.91
The church changed
the Sabbath into Sunday,
00:42:19.94\00:42:25.42
not by the command of
Christ, but by it's what?
00:42:25.45\00:42:28.35
Own authority.
00:42:28.38\00:42:29.89
My question is, does
it have that authority?
00:42:29.92\00:42:33.26
If it doesn't
have that authority
00:42:33.29\00:42:35.17
then if you're
worshipping on that day
00:42:35.20\00:42:37.51
you are listening to
Rome and not to Jesus Christ.
00:42:37.54\00:42:41.87
He said, I'm
Lord of the Sabbath,
00:42:41.90\00:42:43.53
Rome says, No, I am.
00:42:43.56\00:42:45.29
Who are we to
believe? Who are we to follow?
00:42:45.32\00:42:47.98
Who are we to stand with?
00:42:48.01\00:42:51.94
Listen to this, we observe,
00:42:51.97\00:42:54.12
there's one thing I've
got to give them credit for,
00:42:54.15\00:42:55.70
they at least admit it.
00:42:55.73\00:42:59.84
You people try
to find a way out.
00:42:59.87\00:43:03.07
But they admit it.
00:43:03.10\00:43:05.40
"We observe Sunday
instead of Saturday
00:43:05.43\00:43:07.56
because the Catholic Church
00:43:07.59\00:43:09.11
the council of Laodicia
transferred the solemnity
00:43:09.14\00:43:12.22
from the Saturday to Sunday,"
00:43:12.25\00:43:13.94
Converts Catechism
of Catholic Church.
00:43:13.97\00:43:15.88
"The Catholic
Church for over 1000 years
00:43:15.91\00:43:17.42
before the
existence of a Protestant,
00:43:17.45\00:43:19.30
by virtue of her divine mission,
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.10
changed the day
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:43:21.13\00:43:23.41
Listen I'm telling
you where it came from,
00:43:23.44\00:43:25.27
"And he shall speak great
words against the most High,
00:43:25.30\00:43:27.60
he shall wear out
the saints to most High,
00:43:27.63\00:43:29.53
persecute the
saints of the most High,
00:43:29.56\00:43:31.46
he shall think to change times
00:43:31.49\00:43:33.20
and laws and they
shall be given into my hand,
00:43:33.23\00:43:35.80
time and times and
dividing of times."
00:43:35.83\00:43:38.35
He says, he
will think to change,
00:43:38.38\00:43:40.59
he may think it
but he can't do it.
00:43:40.62\00:43:48.04
He has no right to do it.
00:43:48.07\00:43:50.34
No right at all.
00:43:50.37\00:43:51.61
"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy."
00:43:51.64\00:43:53.48
Why do you think God
said you should remember it
00:43:53.51\00:43:55.58
because He knew the
antichrist would come
00:43:55.61\00:43:57.49
that this beast like power,
this hierarchy would change it.
00:43:57.52\00:44:01.71
So He warned us,
He said remember it
00:44:01.74\00:44:04.70
because they're gonna change it.
00:44:04.73\00:44:06.78
Hey listen, if God says remember
00:44:06.81\00:44:08.20
why do you think you
don't have to remember?
00:44:08.23\00:44:10.78
Do you only want to remember
what you want to remember
00:44:10.81\00:44:12.65
and forget what
you want to forget?
00:44:12.68\00:44:15.32
Can you walk
away from this place
00:44:15.35\00:44:16.98
those who've
come night after night
00:44:17.01\00:44:18.57
listening to the Word of God
00:44:18.60\00:44:19.83
and just walk away and say,
00:44:19.86\00:44:21.41
well, I want to remember.
00:44:21.44\00:44:22.55
Remember what? Remember what?
00:44:22.58\00:44:26.60
Well, yeah, I
really wanna follow it
00:44:26.63\00:44:28.15
but I don't have to
align myself with it.
00:44:28.18\00:44:30.39
Why not?
00:44:30.42\00:44:33.23
Peter did.
00:44:33.26\00:44:36.93
John did.
00:44:36.96\00:44:39.64
Listen to the Word of God,
00:44:39.67\00:44:40.70
"In it thou
shall not do any work,
00:44:40.73\00:44:41.89
thou, nor they
son, nor thy daughter,
00:44:41.92\00:44:42.99
thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant,
00:44:43.02\00:44:44.50
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
00:44:44.53\00:44:45.73
that is within thy gates.
00:44:45.76\00:44:47.09
For in six days
the Lord made heaven
00:44:47.12\00:44:48.46
and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is,
00:44:48.49\00:44:50.55
and rested the seventh day:
00:44:50.58\00:44:51.67
wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day,
00:44:51.70\00:44:53.46
and he," what?
00:44:53.49\00:44:54.53
"He hallowed it."
00:44:54.56\00:44:55.59
That's the Word of God, friend.
00:44:55.62\00:44:56.68
That's what the Bible says
00:44:56.71\00:44:57.80
but man has been
trampling on the Word of God.
00:44:57.83\00:44:59.84
Listen, man has been
trampling on the Word of God.
00:44:59.87\00:45:02.35
Isaiah cried out,
he said this, he said,
00:45:02.38\00:45:04.99
"Cry aloud, spare not,
00:45:05.02\00:45:06.38
lift up the
voice like a trumpet,
00:45:06.41\00:45:07.82
show my people
their transgressions,
00:45:07.85\00:45:09.87
and the house of
Jacob their sins."
00:45:09.90\00:45:12.01
We got to cry out,
00:45:12.04\00:45:13.11
"If thou turn away
thy foot from the Sabbath,
00:45:13.14\00:45:15.34
from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day,
00:45:15.37\00:45:17.61
and call the Sabbath a
delight, the holy of the Lord."
00:45:17.64\00:45:20.18
Listen to what
He says, "honorable,
00:45:20.21\00:45:22.29
and shalt honour him
by not doing thy own ways,
00:45:22.32\00:45:25.04
nor finding thine own pleasure,
nor speaking thine own words."
00:45:25.07\00:45:28.01
He says keep it.
00:45:28.04\00:45:30.14
Enjoy it, because
I've given it to you.
00:45:30.17\00:45:33.97
I've given it to you
00:45:34.00\00:45:35.31
and my God's the
same yesterday, today
00:45:35.34\00:45:38.11
and He's the same forever.
00:45:38.14\00:45:40.08
"Saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, give glory to him,
00:45:40.11\00:45:43.08
for the hour of
his judgment is come,
00:45:43.11\00:45:46.40
worship him that made heaven,
00:45:46.43\00:45:48.26
and earth and the sea,
and the fountains of waters."
00:45:48.29\00:45:51.35
God is calling up people through
00:45:51.38\00:45:52.55
the Three Angels message
to keep His commandments,
00:45:52.58\00:45:55.73
to obey His
Sabbath, to follow His will
00:45:55.76\00:45:59.10
and you can and
are a part of this.
00:45:59.13\00:46:02.91
And I've never been
wanting to turn around
00:46:02.94\00:46:07.52
to walk away.
00:46:07.55\00:46:09.35
When I found Jesus
Christ, I said, Lord,
00:46:09.38\00:46:11.46
whatever you have me do I'll do.
00:46:11.49\00:46:14.30
Little did I know
what He would show me.
00:46:14.33\00:46:17.32
Little did I know when
He showed me the Sabbath,
00:46:17.35\00:46:21.02
when He should me the Sabbath.
00:46:21.05\00:46:24.08
Remember the Sabbath day,
my Sabbath, it's Christ's day.
00:46:24.11\00:46:27.94
To dishonor is
to dishonor Christ.
00:46:27.97\00:46:31.89
Whatever you want to think
00:46:31.92\00:46:32.98
to dishonor it is
to dishonor Christ.
00:46:33.01\00:46:36.34
Remember my Sabbath.
00:46:36.37\00:46:38.97
"But in vain do they worship me,
00:46:39.00\00:46:40.17
teaching for doctrines
the commandments," what?
00:46:40.20\00:46:42.81
I mean, we would
rather serve God than man,
00:46:42.84\00:46:46.26
do you understand that.
00:46:46.29\00:46:48.10
We'd rather serve
God than man, than man.
00:46:48.13\00:46:53.51
Let me tell you
about Luten Schizeth
00:46:53.54\00:46:57.61
he lived in Czechoslovakia.
00:46:57.64\00:46:59.52
And during the years
of the Soviet domination,
00:46:59.55\00:47:01.33
during the years of the
great religious oppression,
00:47:01.36\00:47:03.75
when communism
took over the country,
00:47:03.78\00:47:05.63
he wanted to be free
to worship on the Sabbath
00:47:05.66\00:47:08.06
and he wanted to
minister to his people,
00:47:08.09\00:47:09.62
he was a pastor
00:47:09.65\00:47:11.01
and he wanted to
continue his work
00:47:11.04\00:47:13.00
but the
communists had other ideas.
00:47:13.03\00:47:15.41
They were
determined that all ministers
00:47:15.44\00:47:16.99
would become laborers.
00:47:17.02\00:47:18.25
Can you imagine that?
00:47:18.28\00:47:19.49
Be thankful you're in America
00:47:19.52\00:47:21.08
but some of you in
America have changed yourself.
00:47:21.11\00:47:23.58
You've changed
yourself to tradition,
00:47:23.61\00:47:25.03
you're not willing to break it.
00:47:25.06\00:47:27.38
You live in a free country
00:47:27.41\00:47:28.44
where you can
worship on the Sabbath
00:47:28.47\00:47:30.00
then go
according your conscience
00:47:30.03\00:47:32.35
but you've changed yourself.
00:47:32.38\00:47:34.46
But he wanted to
be free to worship,
00:47:34.49\00:47:35.97
he wanted to be
free to serve his God
00:47:36.00\00:47:38.45
and but they were
going to send him away
00:47:38.48\00:47:41.85
to be a laborer
in the coal mines.
00:47:41.88\00:47:45.65
So in order for him to
be close he came to an idea.
00:47:45.68\00:47:50.41
He on the job in the city,
00:47:50.44\00:47:52.98
he would take a
job no one wanted.
00:47:53.01\00:47:55.75
No one wanted to
clean the sewers,
00:47:55.78\00:47:59.14
hundreds of feet under
the ground, the sewers.
00:47:59.17\00:48:04.51
And so he went to the leaders,
00:48:04.54\00:48:05.65
the communist's
officials and ask for that job.
00:48:05.68\00:48:09.87
He wanted to serve God
and keep the Sabbath holy.
00:48:09.90\00:48:12.09
Is that legalism?
00:48:12.12\00:48:14.46
Come on now.
00:48:14.49\00:48:15.97
What makes this legalism
00:48:16.00\00:48:17.11
because you're following one day
00:48:17.14\00:48:18.30
before the other day
and you're keeping God's day
00:48:18.33\00:48:20.58
instead of man's day,
why would that be legalism?
00:48:20.61\00:48:23.94
I would think the
other would be legalism.
00:48:23.97\00:48:26.96
So he says, no.
00:48:26.99\00:48:28.03
He says, I'll clean the sewers.
00:48:28.06\00:48:30.45
And so they laughed at him
00:48:30.48\00:48:31.99
and rather he
became a sewer cleaner
00:48:32.02\00:48:36.75
so he could worship his God.
00:48:36.78\00:48:39.13
And there he went,
00:48:39.16\00:48:40.55
he went there into
the sewers to serve God.
00:48:40.58\00:48:44.50
Listen, I'd rather
clean a sewer for God
00:48:44.53\00:48:48.62
than walk the shadow of Rome.
00:48:48.65\00:48:52.95
Your choice.
00:48:52.98\00:48:55.01
Listen to me,
you have that choice.
00:48:55.04\00:48:59.35
A man who claims to be God
00:48:59.38\00:49:00.64
or God who became a man for us,
00:49:00.67\00:49:04.25
the Christ or the antichrist?
00:49:04.28\00:49:09.09
The decision is yours.
00:49:09.12\00:49:11.79
But friend, remember this,
00:49:11.82\00:49:14.57
the judgment is God's, is God's.
00:49:14.60\00:49:22.06
Now another Bible question.
00:49:55.85\00:49:58.03
The Bible says that
things are going to get worst
00:49:58.06\00:49:59.62
before Jesus returns.
00:49:59.65\00:50:00.70
However, in some ways
things appear to be going better
00:50:00.73\00:50:04.74
like in medicine and technology,
00:50:04.77\00:50:06.91
I've heard it said
that the next generation
00:50:06.94\00:50:09.02
may reach ages of 120
00:50:09.05\00:50:11.38
and will be able to
do extraordinary feats,
00:50:11.41\00:50:13.26
thanks to new
discoveries, can you explain?
00:50:13.29\00:50:17.08
Well, I don't know if I can.
00:50:17.11\00:50:18.14
People are living
longer, that's right.
00:50:18.17\00:50:20.41
The Bible talks
about how the love of many
00:50:20.44\00:50:22.05
will wax cold in the last days
00:50:22.08\00:50:23.77
but if you take a look at
the city like New York City,
00:50:23.80\00:50:26.28
murder rates are down
00:50:26.31\00:50:28.14
for now compared to where
they were a few years ago,
00:50:28.17\00:50:31.39
that's a great thing.
00:50:31.42\00:50:33.09
The cure rate for
some types of cancer is up.
00:50:33.12\00:50:36.37
That's a magnificent thing.
00:50:36.40\00:50:38.29
There are other markers
00:50:38.32\00:50:39.53
that you could look at that say,
00:50:39.56\00:50:41.09
things are
getting better not worse.
00:50:41.12\00:50:43.99
But that would
be just identifying
00:50:44.02\00:50:45.32
some few key things.
00:50:45.35\00:50:48.00
Look around
society and you know that,
00:50:48.03\00:50:53.33
I don't want to name any names
but some of these entertainers,
00:50:53.36\00:50:57.05
they wouldn't have tried
that stuff 30, 40 years ago,
00:50:57.08\00:50:59.32
wouldn't have got away with it.
00:50:59.35\00:51:00.71
20 years ago might
have been a massive scandal,
00:51:00.74\00:51:03.15
today people shrug,
roll their eyes and go on.
00:51:03.18\00:51:06.19
My point being
that we are accepting
00:51:06.22\00:51:09.16
of a lot more today
than we were before.
00:51:09.19\00:51:12.29
The incivility in society,
the foul language in society,
00:51:12.32\00:51:15.86
the immorality in society
00:51:15.89\00:51:19.07
and we really don't
have a whole lot of option
00:51:19.10\00:51:22.69
other than to pray
00:51:22.72\00:51:23.75
and make our
dissatisfaction known
00:51:23.78\00:51:26.04
because the world has become
what the world has become.
00:51:26.07\00:51:30.43
I don't know that you can
isolate certain key factors
00:51:30.46\00:51:35.78
and say this is evidence that
maybe the Bible's predictions
00:51:35.81\00:51:39.72
about the last days are wrong.
00:51:39.75\00:51:41.77
The Bible says things
gonna get worse and worse, no.
00:51:41.80\00:51:46.78
You know what's interesting.
00:51:46.81\00:51:48.82
In the Bible it says,
00:51:48.85\00:51:49.88
that people are
saying peace and safety
00:51:49.91\00:51:52.83
and then sudden
destruction comes,
00:51:52.86\00:51:54.42
it means that
some people are saying,
00:51:54.45\00:51:56.44
hey, things are okay right now.
00:51:56.47\00:51:59.24
I don't know that we should
look at key factors and say,
00:51:59.27\00:52:02.21
huh, here's proof, here's proof,
00:52:02.24\00:52:04.17
but if you take them
together in a basket,
00:52:04.20\00:52:05.79
in a grouping and you
look at the world today
00:52:05.82\00:52:08.04
and you compare that
with what we see in the Bible.
00:52:08.07\00:52:10.71
There is no question
we're on the downward
00:52:10.74\00:52:12.77
march towards
oblivion if I can call it that.
00:52:12.80\00:52:16.96
The downward
march towards the end
00:52:16.99\00:52:19.52
and perhaps
it's a hopeful march.
00:52:19.55\00:52:20.93
You know why?
00:52:20.96\00:52:22.03
Because Jesus said in Luke 21,
00:52:22.06\00:52:23.88
when you see these
things begin to come to pass,
00:52:23.91\00:52:26.49
lift up your head and look up
00:52:26.52\00:52:28.48
because your
redemption draws nigh.
00:52:28.51\00:52:30.97
People who believe in Jesus
00:52:31.00\00:52:32.05
don't need to be
bad news merchants.
00:52:32.08\00:52:33.91
There is a lot of
bad news in the world.
00:52:33.94\00:52:35.98
It's not
inappropriate to recognize that,
00:52:36.01\00:52:38.70
things are trending
downwards not upwards,
00:52:38.73\00:52:40.32
it's not wrong
to recognize that,
00:52:40.35\00:52:42.84
bat it off as that's hope.
00:52:42.87\00:52:44.91
Jesus said when
you see these things
00:52:44.94\00:52:46.36
begin to come to
pass lift up your heads,
00:52:46.39\00:52:49.89
look up, it's good news, why?
00:52:49.92\00:52:51.63
Matthew 24, because
Jesus' coming is near
00:52:51.66\00:52:55.33
even at the doors is not
far away now, halleluiah.
00:52:55.36\00:53:01.14
And now another
Bible question and that is,
00:53:01.17\00:53:03.74
there have been
many books written saying
00:53:03.77\00:53:05.40
that the antichrist of
the last days or the beast
00:53:05.43\00:53:08.56
in Revelation
Chapter 13 is a man?
00:53:08.59\00:53:12.36
Can you
demonstrate from the Bible?
00:53:12.39\00:53:14.86
Only that this is not so.
00:53:14.89\00:53:19.26
Yes, I think we can.
00:53:19.29\00:53:21.41
Is the beast in
Bible prophecy a man?
00:53:21.44\00:53:25.92
the book we want
to go to, Chapter 7
00:53:25.95\00:53:29.27
is the chapter
we want to look in.
00:53:29.30\00:53:31.45
Daniel 7 and verse, I'll
start in verse 1 it says,
00:53:31.48\00:53:36.76
"Daniel had a
dream and visions."
00:53:36.79\00:53:39.36
Verse 2,
00:53:39.39\00:53:41.69
"The four winds of the heaven
strove upon the great sea."
00:53:41.72\00:53:44.06
Verse 3,
00:53:44.09\00:53:47.52
"And four great beasts came up
00:53:47.55\00:53:50.25
from the sea
diverse one from another.
00:53:50.28\00:53:52.73
The first one was like a lion,
second one was like a bear,
00:53:52.76\00:53:55.68
third one was like a leopard,
00:53:55.71\00:53:56.96
the fourth one defied
zoological classification."
00:53:56.99\00:54:01.90
And Daniel is wondering
what in the world is going on.
00:54:01.93\00:54:04.90
God doesn't
leave him in the dark.
00:54:04.93\00:54:06.91
Verse 17,
00:54:06.94\00:54:09.25
"These great
beasts which are four,
00:54:09.28\00:54:13.53
are four kings which
shall arise out of the earth."
00:54:13.56\00:54:19.67
Well, that sounds
like individual John,
00:54:19.70\00:54:22.59
that's a king,
that would be one king.
00:54:22.62\00:54:24.94
Verse 23,
00:54:24.97\00:54:26.24
"Thus he said, the fourth beast,
00:54:26.27\00:54:28.29
the fourth beast
shall be the fourth kingdom
00:54:28.32\00:54:33.34
upon the earth
00:54:33.37\00:54:34.81
which shall be
diverse from all kingdoms."
00:54:34.84\00:54:39.20
In Bible prophecy
a beast doesn't mean,
00:54:39.23\00:54:41.64
doesn't represent a
man, it represents a kingdom
00:54:41.67\00:54:45.13
or a nation perhaps.
00:54:45.16\00:54:47.76
In Revelation Chapter 13,
00:54:47.79\00:54:49.14
we're not talking
about a beast being--
00:54:49.17\00:54:52.44
excuse me, this is stubborn.
00:54:52.47\00:54:54.72
We're not talking about
a beast as an individual.
00:54:54.75\00:54:57.24
I saw beast rise
up out of the sea
00:54:57.27\00:54:59.03
having seven
heads and ten horns,
00:54:59.06\00:55:01.26
a beast with seven heads,
00:55:01.29\00:55:02.91
we're not dealing with
an individual rising up
00:55:02.94\00:55:04.90
out of the water.
00:55:04.93\00:55:06.03
We're talking about a kingdom
00:55:06.06\00:55:07.35
that rose up in
a part of the world
00:55:07.38\00:55:09.37
where there are a lot of people.
00:55:09.40\00:55:10.56
Waters representing
people in Bible prophecy,
00:55:10.59\00:55:14.08
we want to be careful.
00:55:14.11\00:55:15.17
I've heard
influential Bible teachers say,
00:55:15.20\00:55:18.57
well, in the
Bible we read that a man
00:55:18.60\00:55:21.53
in the last day, and so on.
00:55:21.56\00:55:25.89
That be okay if it was
true but you look at the Bible,
00:55:25.92\00:55:29.08
the Bible says beast represents
00:55:29.11\00:55:30.50
not an individual but a kingdom.
00:55:30.53\00:55:34.03
Now having said
that, Daniel 7:8 says that,
00:55:34.06\00:55:40.56
"In this horn, the little horn
00:55:40.59\00:55:43.04
there were eyes
like the eyes of a man."
00:55:43.07\00:55:47.06
Ten horns came out
of the fourth kingdom
00:55:47.09\00:55:49.03
and a little horn in them.
00:55:49.06\00:55:51.53
The horns
represent kingdoms as well,
00:55:51.56\00:55:54.10
the little horn kingdom,
00:55:54.13\00:55:56.69
in it eyes like
the eyes of a man.
00:55:56.72\00:55:58.86
So we would believe
that in the last days
00:55:58.89\00:56:01.47
the antichrist power
has a man at its head,
00:56:01.50\00:56:05.17
no question about that.
00:56:05.20\00:56:07.29
But it's not an individual,
it's not your neighbor,
00:56:07.32\00:56:10.00
no matter how much
you don't like him.
00:56:10.03\00:56:12.04
It isn't the
president of the United States,
00:56:12.07\00:56:15.02
no matter how
much you don't like him
00:56:15.05\00:56:16.26
because it's not
referring to an individual.
00:56:16.29\00:56:20.75
Now you may say
00:56:20.78\00:56:22.29
it represents a
kingdom or a nation
00:56:22.32\00:56:25.51
and that kingdom or nation
00:56:25.54\00:56:27.11
has a man
leading speaking for it,
00:56:27.14\00:56:31.74
okay, we're
doing better with that.
00:56:31.77\00:56:34.46
But biblically speaking
there's nothing to suggest
00:56:34.49\00:56:37.13
the antichrist is an individual.
00:56:37.16\00:56:40.04
Also you read in the Bible
that this power would reign
00:56:40.07\00:56:45.00
for 1,260 years and
that's already happened.
00:56:45.03\00:56:49.37
No individual
reigned for 1,260 years.
00:56:49.40\00:56:53.60
The Bible's pretty clear.
00:56:53.63\00:56:55.08
Be sure that you
can trust the Bible,
00:56:55.11\00:56:58.11
its only right when we
learn to know what it is saying,
00:56:58.14\00:57:02.73
we're gonna be
right, right along with it.
00:57:02.76\00:57:05.21
In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says,
00:57:13.57\00:57:16.06
"It is written,
00:57:16.09\00:57:17.17
'Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:57:17.20\00:57:19.26
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
00:57:19.29\00:57:23.15
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